Back-Flipping Into HistoryYou think you celebrated spring skiing in style? Not like 30 skiers at Quebec’s Mont SaintSauveur, who pulled off the sweet stunt above earlier in April. The idea was the brainchild of WorldCup champion Mikael Kingsbury and Mont Saint Sauveur head coach Edward Lortie, who had longbeen staring at the giant 1977 photo of 19 hand-holding skiers on the Mont Saint Sauveur chalet wall.Last Christmas, the two childhood buddies looked at each other and said, “We can beat that!”With the blessing of Christian Dufour, the mountain’s director of customer experience, Kingsbury start-ed a Facebook group, where he invited the best Quebec-based back-flippers he knew. Twenty-fourhours before showtime, Lortie, concerned that not enough skiers would show up, hand-picked a coupleof extra club kids.The athletes, ranging in age from 14 to 42, paired themselves up for morning practice. Two by two,three by three, four by four. The final test run was 18.They missed their first attempt at 30. But by the second shot, the group understood the differentiatingterrain, compensated for it by staggering their takeoff, and together executed 30 simultaneous big, softback flips.Guinness might not have have its stamp on this jump, but neither Lortie nor Kingsbury are worried.Next year, they told the Waxroom, “we plan on having 50 flippers.”